GTA Trilogy - Remastered? (GTA III, Vice City & San Andreas)

chrismscotland · 12 Aug 2021 at 20:41

Seems to be a lot of reports tonight that a GTA Trilogy "Remaster" is going to be launched on consoles, mobile and PC this year; probably explains the recent legal crackdown by Rockstar on modders, etc for games which on the face of it are almost 20 years old at this point!! (GTA III).

Personally I don't really want to have to buy them again having bought them multiple times for PS2, Xbox and mobile but if they're a good remaster then I'm in! Looks like the Nintendo Switch is rumoured as well; would be nice to see them on there!

I loved Vice City; its probably still my favourite gaming memory getting that back in 2002 with my PS2 and spending literally months playing it; also massively influenced some of my musical taste; born in the 80's but not old enough to have experienced it but you can't beat some of the tunes!

I just hope they can re-license the music as I think that some of those ending caused the games to be stopped on Steam, etc for a while a few years back - wouldn't be the same without it!

Nice as it is though.... I'd rather they just got cracking with GTA 6.... a nice 80's Vice City game would be good....

RedFluffy · 12 Aug 2021 at 22:10

Its awesome to see that it may come to the Switch too

JoeBoi · 12 Aug 2021 at 23:07

I've just seen the news for this, I hope that it's true.

It's said to be using the Unreal engine.

d_brennen · 12 Aug 2021 at 23:24

Hopefully the controls and game logic is updated as well. GTA3 especially is all kinds of jank these days

Vandle · 12 Aug 2021 at 23:44

Gamers should take a stand and refuse to buy anything else from Rockstar until they make GTA 6.

Not me though, I'll likely buy this day one :rolleyes:

robfosters · 12 Aug 2021 at 23:59

I don’t think there’ll ever be a GTA 6. I feel like they’ve secretly buried it and will just keep remastering the old ones for easy profit.

Vandle · 13 Aug 2021 at 00:05

robfosters said:
I don’t think there’ll ever be a GTA 6. I feel like they’ve secretly buried it and will just keep remastering the old ones for easy profit.

Yeah agree. The fact GTA Online is still so active shows they have more juice to squeeze. Would make little business sense to spend money elsewhere.

Converge · 13 Aug 2021 at 00:59

I wish they’d release the original top down 2D ones again, I never found the 3D ones half as interesting.

Raiden85 · 13 Aug 2021 at 07:19

Would nice to get a remastered GTA 4, seems they've completely ignored that game. Even on a 5950x and 3090 it still runs like crap, that game is begging for a remaster on a modern engine.

Great to see them porting to the Switch finally though, that's been stupidly overdue.

dave28 · 13 Aug 2021 at 07:57

i think they aged badly, i tried to do a playthought of GTA 4 and it was so bad IMO

chrismscotland · 13 Aug 2021 at 10:25

dave28 said:
i think they aged badly, i tried to do a playthought of GTA 4 and it was so bad IMO

In some respects I think the older ones have aged better; they were simpler; less complex games; GTA 4 was the first one that had much more complex systems, etc and always ran like crap!

dave28 · 13 Aug 2021 at 10:36

chrismscotland said:
In some respects I think the older ones have aged better; they were simpler; less complex games; GTA 4 was the first one that had much more complex systems, etc and always ran like crap!

i always liked saints row much better, it was much smoother with better controls but totally over the top and silly sadly

McBain · 13 Aug 2021 at 12:59

I've love to play a remastered VC, still the best of the series IMO.

The music when you're driving into the city is iconic. Great setting, soundtrack and story - very Scarface'esque.

Arcane · 13 Aug 2021 at 13:05

I think these are being bundled with the GTA5 remaster aren't they?

chrismscotland · 13 Aug 2021 at 13:15

Arcane said:
I think these are being bundled with the GTA5 remaster aren't they?

Its possible but isn't GTA 5 next year for the PS5/XBX "update"? Rumours are that this trilogy is coming ahead of Christmas

BowdonUK · 13 Aug 2021 at 14:34

I don't mind the remasters, even though I bought the old versions in a bundle not to long ago.

But I'd like GTA 4 to be remastered, or even just re-released on the consoles. I wouldn't mind even a stripped down version of it. Different music (didn't they remove music from GTA 4 due to copyright issues?), and disable the multiplayer part.

Converge · 13 Aug 2021 at 16:28

chrismscotland said:
Its possible but isn't GTA 5 next year for the PS5/XBX "update"? Rumours are that this trilogy is coming ahead of Christmas

PS5 version is supposed to be November by all accounts. But no details as to whether it’s a free upgrade for existing owners or not.

robj20 · 13 Aug 2021 at 16:47

Ps5 version of gtav, isn't gtav a remaster of the PS3 version?
Just stop with the remasters, should be playing GTA6 by now.
PS4 the first time a GTA hasn't been released.

Changesx · 16 Sep 2021 at 11:07

I feel like San Andreas was the game at the time period it came out. It was one of my first PS2 games that I had played.

I just feel it won’t be the same if I played it now even with it being remastered

if they do a good job I’ll end up buying it just to complete it because I couldn’t complete it last time!

ic1male · 16 Sep 2021 at 11:30

The only GTA game I've ever finished is Vice City. But the new trophy additions should spur me on with the others.